Monday, February 2, 2009

Another "boring" Monday




Monday, January 26th. Another monotonous day, I thought. The alarm clock screamed at 7:00 in the morning, I showered with sleepy eyes and I raced to the bus stop, with a tired feeeling inside my body. However, that was about to change, as I saw when we arrived to school. The bus doors opened, and we all uneagerly left to our homeroom classes. But, oh, what a surprise, there was no electricity in the entire school!! The hateful Monday was begining to have a twist, and soon the word began to spread around that they were going to evacuate the school. Emotion was boiling amongst all of us, and soon the boiring Monday turned to be an emotion-full friday.However, how did the school end up without electricity?
Well, it all started the weekend before. On Friday, authorities started alerting citizens that a cyclone was entering the Iberic Peninsula through Galicia, carrying winds of about 180km/hr. The forecast was right. At about 3 o-clock in the morniong on Saturday, furious winds swept the Basque Country, and from my house in Bilbao, we could see water from the river being carried by ferocious winds accross the streets. Next morning, when I went outside, it seemed as if a terrible hurricane had just passed by; trees were teared apart, trash containers were overturned, and the city was in chaos.
However, nobody expected that even the school's roof would be carried by the wind to a nearby farm, and the remaining roof was damaged, menacing with falling. It was because of this, and the fact that there was no electricity, that the school principals; Mr. Jenkins and Mr. West decided to evacuate the school. However, the organization of the evacuation was awful. Instead of calling the buses, they had the children call their parents, and if they couldn't come and pick them up, they had to leave with friends. However, I really don't know if it was impossible for the buses to come. At the end, it was a terrific Friday, sorry, Monday.